Hundreds of students at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston have signed an online petition protesting a new course on generative AI music and songwriting, marking another salvo in the continuing battle between artists and a technology they believe is stealing their hope for a livelihood.
As of Tuesday, 418 people have signed the petition, which is targeting the two-credit course “Bots and Beats: AI and the Future of Songwriting” and calling for the school to stop leveraging AI on campus.
Berklee College of Music Students Furious That It’s Offering an AI “Songwriting” Class
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/berklee-college-ai-music
9 Comments
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 119d
oh this sounds like an extremely valuable class lmfao
zqwzzle@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 119d
Didn’t they just cancel the metaverse?
kat_angstrom@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 118d
Yes but also No but kinda
jaredwhite@humansare.social · 18 pts · 119d
holy shit, I thought you were making a joke, but then I clicked over to read the actual description and it's all really in there!?! WTF??!
Ilixtze@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 119d
I'm sure this college got some sort of deal or increased valuation for adding this kind of crap
NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 119d
I don't blame them.
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 118d
Why bother wasting money on this class when you're not making anything? Why even show up to class?
Susan60@aus.social · 7 pts · 118d
@jaredwhite
“Come & learn how to do something that will eventually relegate you to a miserable menial job!“
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 118d
I hope this is a ruse and when students show up BAM Expulsion paperwork.